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It's my first trouble ticket in over 6 months, I rarely ever have to contact IB, but on the rare occasion that I do, I expect a prompt response. The answer is NOT in the literature, and cannot be deciphered through my statement. So, it's my fault that IB doesn't answer trouble tickets in a...

I think you hit the nail on the head, there! My ticket was asking them why the difference in price on unbundled pricing orders that were executed in my account? I pasted my condensed audit trail, and voila! No response from IB. Sounds simple enough to me. I figure they either: 1) Don't know...

There's no recession going on now, and there is not going to be one. The market is acting normally. Stocks are usually down during the winter months. Just Buy during the summer and Sell when winter rolls around, and you'll make a profit.

Does IB not respond to trouble tickets anymore?

How can I trade on the India Stock Exchange. I live in the U.s. I know some Indian stocks such as TTM are available on American exchanges, but I want to trade on the Indian Stock Exchange so I can trade the Indian stock, Bharti Tele-Ventures Limited. How do I do that?

Thanks for that info. The way I understand it is that we can trade any amount of shares through SMART or INET as long as we don't abuse the system. Is that correct? Will SMART route through ARCA?

Silly. How many 25 year olds are into trading? How many know what to trade? How many are not going to be sidetracked by a new car, vacations, a spouse, kids, hard times, for 40+ years?

exactly right, egusc. We all remember the trouble Arthur Anderson and the other Big 8's have got into.

Is IB ever going to update its contract details? Many instruments have incorrect exchange, trading hours, and share information. Further, most stocks says the minimum trade is 100, yet I've been able to trade 25 shares or less on most stocks. It would be nice if we knew the minmum shares...

Wiring is the best option, but you have to go to the bank, and it costs money. There is no reason that IB's ACH should be so slow in crediting our accounts.

Not necessarily true. I've had CPAs do my taxes and make errors. I prefer to do my own.

Those times between 10pm-1am are times that I recently noticed trades posting. Of course, I've noticed these types of trades posting anytime from 8pm-3am(when ARCA opens), times when the market is closed to us "common" traders. :(

Thanks for your reply, diligent. I checked out posit and liquidnet. That's about what I thought was happening, either MMs or ECNs buying. It doesn't seem fair that they can post orders at times when the general public cannot. Of course, most things in life are not fair, especially stock trading...

I'm on U.S. Central Time (CST), and know that some people trade after ARCA opens at 4:00am CST. However, I've noticed trades going through at 10pm or 1am on NASDAQ and AMEX stocks. HOW is someone able to trade at those hours when I cannot? WHO is making these trades late at nite or early...

I've had an account with Oanda for 2 years. I would like to close it and use my IB acct for everything, but I can't because of IB's forex flaws. I wish IB would get their forex act together.

That is EXACTLY how it works, and EXACTLY why IB is not a good place to trade forex.

Well, after more research about Iphone, I am not impressed with it, and less with Steve Jobs. I was thinking of moving from PC to Apple, but am now reluctant because of Jobs' ignorant statement. Anyhow, it won't be available until this summer, so I'm looking at other PDA's/Smartphones/Blackberrys.

uh..... none. Oh well, looking at Samsung Blackjack, and Cingular 8525, etc., etc.

I just read on Macromedia's website where Steve Jobs said that nobody uses java anymore, etc. http://weblogs.macromedia.com/md/archives/2007/01/does_apples_iph.cfm I've been considering getting an Iphone to do stock trading when away from home. Now, I am reluctant to buy an Iphone and am...

Of course, I am not naiive to think that everything they own makes money. I just wanted to view their choices and compare it with my own analysis. FWIW, I'm also smart enough not to jump to conclusions about other people being naiive.